This is an analysis of the poem Elegie [nanna! Du Vil Altsaa Fra Mig Tage] that begins with:
Nanna! du vil altsaa fra mig tage
Hvad du selv engang dog undte mig!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXXXXXXXaXaXbXXcXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdddXXeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXeXefgXgXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdX XXXXXXdXdaXXXXXfbXXeXaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 104,25,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110111 10110111 101111110 11101011 101101011 101111011 111010111 110101111 101101010 11111101 1110111010 11010011 111111100 11011101 111111110 11001111 111011101 111011 111111111 11110110 1101011 10110011 111001101 10101001 111111010 11111011 1111101100 11111101 110111101 1111111 11101111 10111011 10111111 11101111 11101111 11111001 11101111 10111001 111110111 011010111 1111101100 1111111111 111001010 101110110 1111110010 111110101 11101100 11101111 11101111 1011011 111001111 10110101 1110100000 11111111 1111011100 11111111 11111111 11111111 1111101111 110011101 111111111 101110010 1011101 111110010 11101011 1100101 111110101 10110001 111100 10001011 1011101 11101111 11110010 11101111 1110001000 10001111 11010111 11010111 111011110 111110111 111101010 1111010 101011111 111111111 1011111 11110101 10111101 111000111 11101101 110001111 111111101 11110011 10111011111 111011111 11110101 1111011 11111111111 11100111111 11101101 1111011 111111100 11101001 1110111010 1111111 101011110 111011101 101110010 11010111 101110110 11101011 101110010 111001100 11111010 111111 1110110110 011011000 111111100 11000011 1111101110 10111101 1011110110 100111100 1111101010 11101011 111011101 111110011 101011101 111100110 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2445
- Average number of words per stanza: 445
- Amount of lines: 129
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mig, du, og, hans, i, nanna, det, kun are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, dette, den, hvad are repeated.
The author used the same word nanna at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Elegie [nanna! Du Vil Altsaa Fra Mig Tage];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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